Sentences with phrase «against these index etfs»

Even without dividends, you can earn income by selling covered calls against these index ETFs.

Not exact matches

Index ETFs also give you a chance to balance your portfolio, hedge against losses, and limit your exposure to a particular sector or industry.

The increasing bullish momentum in the financial ETF we mentioned last Friday can be easily seen on the percentage change chart below, which compares the performance of S&P Select Financial SPDR ($ XLF) against the S&P 500 SPDR ($ SPY), a popular ETF proxy that tracks the performance of the broad - based S&P 500 Index:

We are creating the DH Old Codger Index Portfolio to compete against this new ETF to see how «old school» stocks do in comparison.

One example where counterparty risk is relevant is in Synthetic ETFs since the ETF provider enters into a swap agreement with a counterparty (usually an investment bank) such that the investment bank agrees to pay the performance of an index against a basket of investments which the ETF provider holds.

That's the most appropriate way to measure an ETF's performance against its benchmark index, but it may not be the return investors actually obtain in their own accounts.

* In this analysis period, alpha and beta are measured against a broader market index, represented by the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI).

You can also measure a fund or ETF against other indexes, like the ones provided by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) and Morningstar, Inc..

The alpha and beta of the portfolio were measured against the broad - based U.S. stock market ETF, and not just a large - cap index, such as the S&P 500 ®.

@davidbak, as best I can tell, most of the talk of tax advantages is a result of conflating ETFs and index funds (e.g., writers will compare the tax payouts of index ETFs against a pool of mutual funds that includes actively managed funds).

The rest are products known as leveraged ETFs, which use borrowed money and / or derivative securities to amplify investment returns, or to bet against the index.

For example, your Canadian equity portfolio could be compared against the S&P TSX Composite as represented by iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU: TSX), Horizon's S&P / TSX 60 ™ Index ETF (HXT: TSX), BMO's S&P / TSX Capped Composite Index ETF (ZCN: TSX) or Vanguard's FTSE Canada Index (TSX: VCE).

Managed by State Street Global Advisors, it is the biggest ETF in the world and is indexed against the S&P 500 Index, so it's day - over-day returns should be very similar to the Index itself and thus suitable for this analysis.

What you can't argue against is the desire of the industry to prod investors into vehicles that provide much higher fees than those found on plain vanilla index ETFs on which we continue to see downward pressure.

Only 31 percent of advisors are currently using inverse ETFs, which allow investors to bet against a market index.

Now, the underlying securities against which the ETF shares trade in the market could be actual stocks that form an index or they could be derivative securities like futures or swaps.

In some cases, the index may have an investable ETF or ETP product issued against it, which gives an investors access to that segment of the market.

Yes, you black - turtleneck - wearing, world - weary pessimists out there can bet against the index with ETFs, and profit if and when it falls in value.

Comparing a fund's returns against returns of a single index or ETF does not account for risk.

Specifically, a smart beta ETF is where an asset manager makes up their own index to track against.

To hedge against a potential market crash in 2017, TheStreet highlighted six ProShares inverse ETFs that sell short specific market indexes, recommending ProShares Short S&P 500 (SH) «if you're undecided about which inverse ETF to choose.»

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The «tracking error» describes the difference between the return of the ETF and the return of the index the ETF is benchmarked against.

The RealBeta ™ of the fund, measured against an ETF tracking the broad equity market as opposed to just a large - cap index, was around 1.08.

Here's a one year chart of this ETF showing its performance against the index itself:

iShares offers an ETF that tracks the S&P 500 Euro Hedged Index and uses a over-the-counter currency swap contract called a month forward FX contract to hedge against the associated currency risk.

The portfolio return is tracked against the S&P 500 index ETF and against Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stock.

Vanguard has several funds indexed against FTSE indices and iShares has several ETFs now, as well.

Under the SEC proposal, an ETF would be defined as a registered open - end management investment company that: • Issues (or redeems) creation units in exchange for the deposit (or delivery) of basket assets the current value of which is disseminated per share by a national securities exchange at regular intervals during the trading day; • Identifies itself as an ETF in any sales literature; • Issues shares that are approved for listing and trading on a securities exchange; • Discloses each business day on its publicly available web site the prior business day's net asset value and closing market price of the fund's shares, and the premium or discount of the closing market price against the net asset value of the fund's shares as a percentage of net asset value; and • Either is an index fund, or discloses each business day on its publicly available web site the identities and weighting of the component securities and other assets held by the fund.

So, I put together a spreadsheet to analyze the monthly returns of the ten iShares ETFs that track the ten sectors of the Dow Jones Total Market Index against their underlying iIndex against their underlying indexindex.

That was a wise choice, because trying to improve on this simple model is, in my opinion, the biggest knock against many of the competitors to these new ETFs, including the iShares CorePortfolios (CBD and CBN), which hold REITs, high - yield bonds, preferred shares, and track fundamental indexes.